Pupo pupeschi



P. PUPESGHI.

WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

No. 512,449. Patented Jan. 9, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PUPO PUPESOHI, OF FLORENCE, ITALY.

WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 512,449, dated January9, 1894.

Application filed December 30, 1892. Serial No. 456,816- (No model.)

To CLZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PUPo Pnrnscnna subject of the Kin g'of Italy, and aresident of Florence, Italy, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Musical Wind Instruments, of which the following is aspecification.

In all wind instruments such as clarinets, Saxophones, oboes, flutes,&c., the short key moved by the little finger of the left hand producesonly one fundamental note, usually, called Cfi or Gfl on the clarinet;Gfi on the oboe and the flute. In order to reduce the number of keys andto give greater facility in slurring rapidly certain notes, I have int?it (clarinet), to produce two or three notes, fundamental sounds orrelative harmonics, without lifting the finger which makes it act.

In the drawings Figures 1 and 2 represent in elevation my invention asapplied to wind instruments.

The mechanism by which I replace the key a it 0a and a plate S (Figs. 1and 2). This plate is not soldered as heretofore to the lever 03; but isconnected to the ring D or to one of the rings D, E, F. The ring D has aspring of sufficient strength to lift the plate S which remains openwhen it does not receive the action of the lever 00 but in the normalstate this lever cc presses on the plate S andis fitted with a spring ofsuperior strength to the one on the plate; the action of the lever 50closes the plate S.

In order to produce the double or even treble effect required taking theclarinet as an example (Fig. 1) I place the key I-I above the arm of thelever The first action will then be: By pressing the little finger ofthe left hand on the end of the key H, the lever m swings, leaves theplate S and allows it to open. For the second effect I keep the littlefinger on the end of the key II and I produce the tone by the usualfingering; for the third eifect of the same key H I maintain the littlefinger of the left hand on the key and produce the tone with theordinary fingering of the clarinet. It is to be observed that in venteda mechanism allowing the key of as formerly used, is composed of a leverthe three effects which have been described, the plate S, beingconnected to the ring D,

will close itself naturally by the ordinary fingering required for theproduction of the second and third effects. I can obtain the same resultby placing the key H underneath the lever ac. The multiple effectrequired could also be obtained by the mechanism shown in Fig. 2, inwhich the key II is combined with the key D and plate 4.

The main feature of my invention consists giving or three fundamentalnotes with their respective harmonics and consequently facilitating thefingering.

The mechanism can be constructed in many ways. I have taken aseXample,in the clariin enabling the key to produce two in the oboe theG}; key serving also to net the key 8% serving also to the notes lt it;produce the low Dfl. In the flute the Gfi could, taken by the long key,be used also to produce the C5 from the Cl; or other notes.

My invention can, naturally, be adapted to all instruments having intheir construction a similar key to that designed in the clarinet underthe name %%in the oboe and the flute under the name of Gfi.

My invention may be adapted to the several types of the clarinet family,the flute, the oboe, the bassoon and the saxophone, the.

I claim- In combination in a wind instrument the plate S, the lever 00arranged to press said plate down but formed separate therefrom, thering D underspring tension connected to the plate S and arranged to liftthe same when freed from the action of the lever 09, the spring for thelever to of greater strength than that for the ring D and the key 11 foroperating the lever cc, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of two witnesses, this 1st day of December, 1892.

PUPO PUPESCHI.

' Witnesses:

J onn VAL JACKSON, srrnrro Bnnnnnnnz.

